62 responses to “A good time is had by all.”

If he then goes on to say “I’ll have to coach even harder now that Jeremy’s here,” I will happily take back any bad things I’ve said about coach Friend. (Hell, I’ll do it even if we have a middling OLine but a great D this year. FSU did OK with a line that was terrible at pass blocking in 2013…)

Okay, when’s the carriage turning into a pumpkin? Is Jason trying on new hockey masks under the dais, just waiting to strike? I didn’t wake up in a parallel universe this morning, did I? As UGA fans, there’s no way way we’d ever get this much good news in a decade – much less one morning – without there being some awful catch.

This is surreal. Not just damn good happy talk but from a coach who has been on the defensive staff of 4 of the past 5 national champions with a specific expertise in the defensive backfield. In the Navy, when the ship has a hole in the side, you plug the hole and shore it up and if that isn’t possible you seal all the water tight doors and contain the flooding to one compartment and hope the ship can still function. Our defensive backfield has been a flooded compartment far too often. Now, it feels as if we just got a brand new ship! Euphoria all around.

The Oline has been a problem for a while. Hasn’t Gates always had issues? And Houston hadn’t played competitive football in year, and Theus himself admitted that he kind of just expected to come in and play, and it was basically handed to him last year. When the Oline needed to be dominant, they were. Consistency was the problem.

Hopefully that’ll get worked out with some self-realization and off-season work. I can’t imagine them regressing, though. Also, just be glad Searles (sp?) is far, far away from that group right now.

Gates played a lot of BBall in HS and is very athletic. At 6’5″ 325 with good feet he certainly had the potential to develop into a good tackle. At the end of the day he really was asked to be a swiss army knife OL . What is that old cliche about doing many things but master of none.? We’ve seen it happen often at Georgia. Plugging holes so to speak.
“Gates said he spent the summer working with Georgia’s linemen “learning every position because I don’t know where I’ll be at.”

Whether it does or not, he’s gotta feel good about his job security for greasing the rails on such a slam dunk hire… but even moreso.. if the defense bails out the offense, then whether he improves or not, it just doesn’t matter… lol.

You people obviously have no idea what a complete and utter shithead Orgeron has been everywhere he has been. That he spent what? 2 months as a head coach when Junior bit the dust hardly makes him anything less than a complete and utter shithead…ask the nearest Ole Miss fan.

Good to see the spirit and passion of the staff, players, fans, and supporters. Glad to see Coach Wilson and Coach Olivadotti stay on board. Thought their coaching was stellar in 2013. They are very good and I hope the AD and HC compensate them for their work and player development. Alums should really support the Dawgs now!!

We got what we hoped for without anyone asking our opinions. No doubt in my mind who is a strong and silent coach running the show. Step back, Greg, your support will be called for soon so that you may understand who is really the power at UGA. And it ain’t you and the Bd of Regents when it comes to our football program.